It seems that the older I get, the faster the years fly by. This one was no exception. I feel like I was just sitting here writing my favorites of 2010 post, and yet, here we are, finishing up the last days of 2011. This year was a big one for me. I made a major change in my business structure which has brought me many new, and wonderful clients. I am the mother of a high school student! I sent one more little one off to preschool, and yet another off to kindergarten. I became a soccer mom (and loved every minute of it)! I made amazing new friends! My photography grew by leaps and bounds (at least I think so). We are preparing to move into a beautiful house up in the mountains. I so look forward to the deer and other critters that we’ll be able to feed from our back porch, and growing tomatoes in the winter (it has a green house)! The brightest highlight of 2011, without a doubt, was the birth of our 9th little love, Elliott Andrew. He has been such a wonderful blessing to our family!

What do I look forward to in 2012? Living in the mountains! Snow! Meeting new people and growing in my photography and business even more. And more than anything, being a mama to my 9 sweet kids and a wife to my amazing husband. I can’t wait to see where 2012 takes us!

Without further ado, here is a collection of some of my favorite images from 2012. They are in no particular order, and I’ve mixed my personal favorites in with my client favorites. As per usual with me, I’m sure I’ve massively over-shared. I can’t help it! 2011 was a wonderful year!

A HUGE thank you to all of my wonderful friends, family, and clients this year for making it such an amazing year! I hope you all have a very merry Christmas and an awesome New Year! <3

As 2010 is winding down, I wanted to take some time and reflect on the past year. It’s been amazing! I have met so many wonderful people, made new friends, and grown in my photography. My kids have gotten bigger, learned new things, and truly give me a reason to get up every morning and face the day. My ‘baby’ is now running around the house at mach speed and speaking in sentences; when did this happen?!?

Anyways, I’m not much for writing, but I wanted to thank all of you for a wonderful year. I hope you all have a very merry Christmas!

Last year, I did a ‘Top 20′ countdown, but there is NO WAY I could narrow it down to 20 this year. So, I just made them smaller. If I make them smaller, I can put up a lot more, right? :D Anyways, these are in semi-order from early 2010 to the present. If you had your pictures done by me this year, you will likely see some of them in this post. And hey, I *still* have over a week to go, I may throw a few more up, you never know! And yes, last but not least is my entire family. We never had a family picture, and now we do thanks to some wonderful friends. :)

I hope you enjoy these as I had a wonderful time taking each and every one of them! <3

Welcome everyone!  I’m so excited to have a fresh new blog!  I’m currently on a break for the winter (unless you need a newborn session…if so, please get in touch with me!), so what better time to spruce things up around here for the new year.  I look forward to my 2010 sessions!

To kick off my new blog, I figured I would do a post commemorating some of my favorite images from 2009, both client, and personal.  It’s been a wonderful, fulfilling year!  To my awesome clients, I’ve had so much fun meeting you!  Thank you so much for letting me play a small part in your lives.  You’ve all been amazing.  To my own family, thank you for putting up with the endless ideas and ‘test runs’ I’ve inflicted on you.  I wouldn’t be able to do it without you!

This was SO hard to narrow down as I’ve had many favorites from each session, but I wanted to limit this to my top 20.

Without further ado, my top 20 favorite images of 2009…

I love this shot of my daughter taken in the forest.  This was just weeks before her first birthday.

The birth of my new baby girl, Octavia, was an obvious highlight to my year.  Here is one of my favorite newborn photos of her.

The first photo of my little group of 8 together…

Daddy & newborn Octavia

The next 2 photos are probably 2 of my all time top 10 favorite pictures I’ve ever taken.  My oldest and youngest.  He was peed on twice during this session (haha!) and I had to fork over some cash for said peeing, but the results are well worth it!

My oldest daughter, Calista, taken with some fun new equipment…

A re-creation of Octavia’s newborn photo, taken at 4 months of age.  Don’t you dig the little bit of drool?

I’m all about fun costumes!

The next 10 photos are favorites from my client sessions this year.  I wish I could post more…it was so hard to choose!  From a desert maternity session, to monsoon storms during a family shoot, to the Masche sextuplets (all sitting in one place at the same time! hehe), to a beautiful senior, to a baby in a flowered cap…there’s a bit of everything here.  I hope you enjoyed my walk down memory lane as much as I did!